When you move to a new country, the hardest gap to close is not the language — it is context. Who the news is about, why a date on the calendar empties the streets, what everyone at the feria already seems to know. This site is a daily shortcut across that gap, written for people building a life here rather than passing through.

Learn Spanish — it is the real key, and we link the original source on every item so you can practice on the thing itself. But do not wait until you are fluent to follow your own city. Being informed today, in English, is how the connection starts.

Nothing on this site is original reporting. Each item is a short summary of work published somewhere else — Uruguayan newsrooms, the Diario Oficial and the ministries, the meteorological services of four countries, international wires on the days they turn to Uruguay — or of public data we read ourselves. We say which, on every item.

And we link to it. The source line under a story goes to the original document or article, not to somebody else’s summary of it. If that original is in Spanish or Portuguese, do not let it stop you: your browser will translate the page in one click, and the translation is more than good enough to confirm a date, a figure or a name.

We would rather you read the original than take our word for it. A summary is a compression, and compression loses things — nuance, a qualifying clause, the sentence that changes what the headline implies. When an item actually matters to you, when it is your filing deadline or your residency appointment or your street, go and read the source. And if we have got something wrong, tell us: it goes in the correction log at the bottom of this page, with a date, and it stays there.

Montevideo Insider is assembled with the help of automated tools that read, translate and summarize a large number of Spanish and Portuguese sources every day — far more than one person could read before breakfast. A human editor sets what is covered, checks the judgment calls, and is responsible for everything published here.

We say this on the record because you should know it, and because it explains both the strengths of the thing and its limits. The strength is coverage: the weather models, the official feeds and a dozen outlets, every morning, without fail. The limit is that a machine cannot ring a source or stand in a queue at Migración. Where a story needs that, we say we have not done it.

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Corrections are logged with a date and never removed, whether they came from us or from you. Write to [email protected].

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